Holidays can be stressful, but a take a deep breath, and take a tip from some calm cats that have found their happy place with classical music. One Scottsdale shelter plays KBAQ in every room for the 60 cats that live there.

It’s a week of economic forecasting in Arizona. On Monday, Lee McPheters of ASU’s W.P. Carey School said that 2017 should be a year of job growth for Arizona with the state’s unemployment rate dropping below 5 percent.

When Daniel Rodriguez was 7 years old, his mother brought him from Mexico to Arizona. They were fleeing violence in their hometown, and, it wasn’t until he was in high school that he found out that he was undocumented.

The governing body of Arizona’s public university system voted Friday to send a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, urging him to help protect students who were brought to the country illegally as children, known as DREAMers.

University of Arizona Professor Peter Troch said that by the year 2050, the world population is expected to reach 2 billion, and, at the same time, it is not cultivating enough soil each year to grow crops.

Before we even get to the office, most of us are battling traffic. Whether it’s on the freeways or on city streets, traffic seems to be getting worse. And the city of Phoenix is trying to do something about it.

Residents of rural areas are significantly more likely to be married and live in the state they were born than people who live in urban communities. That’s according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community survey comparing the two areas.

For questions or comments about this website, please contact the KJZZ webmaster. For general comments or questions see the Contact KJZZ page for a listing of contacts by topic.Please note: Station policy mandates that listeners who win on-air giveaways on this station are not eligible to win again for 30 days.

Email regarding NPR's coverage, ethics, and funding can be sent to the NPR Ombudsman, who maintains an informative web page. For comments or concerns regarding NPR programs, listeners with a general inquiry may send an email to nprhelp@npr.org